Re: How to identify Het clown Ball python?
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dembonez
doesn't het carry the gene but none of the look?
Heterozygous means having unmatched versions of a gene; one version from mom and a different one from dad. Spiders and most pinstripes are just as much hets as het albinos. But since the recessive morphs where the first exposure most ball python people got to the word "het" there is a common mistaken belief that it only applies to normal looking gene carriers. The important thing about hets regardless of what they look like due to their mutation type (recessive, co-dominant, dominant, or in-between two of these) is that with a het having an unmatched pair each offspring has a 50/50 chance of which version of the gene they will get from the het parent.
Re: How to identify Het clown Ball python?
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Pictures !!! Pictures of the adult on eggs, marking the eggs right away, pictures of snakes coming out of the eggs, good quality pictures of hatchlings from different angles.
Not to burst your bubble here but all those without buying from someone who is HONEST/Reputable and Guarantees his animals does not mean anything.
A picture of a normal on eggs does not guarantee the what's inside is the results of visual x normal pairing.
Picture of hatching coming out of the eggs, out of the eggs etc do not guarantee what the animals are.
Paperwork is only as good as the seller's reputation, people have bought fake hets that came with all the paperworks and by the time people discover it they were long gone.
Bottom line paperwork and pictures do not always mean anything it's about buying from the right person someone you know you can trust (that goes for any animals) and you know will make it right.
Can animal be sold as hets turning out not to be without any malicious intent? It's VERY rare but it can (sperm retention being one of the possible cause) and that's where buying from the right person is important should it happen.
